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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>JEREMIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 22
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David’s throne stands or falls on the degree of obedience of the kings—The judgments of the Lord rest upon the kings of Judah.
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Thus</span> saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
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And say, Hear the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates:
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Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; Execute ye <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/22/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Justice.">judgment</a> and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/22/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 7: 6.">stranger</a>, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/22/3c" mark="c" type="A" title="D&C 132: 19.">blood</a> in this place.
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For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/22/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 17: 25.">kings</a> sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.
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But if ye will not hear these words, I <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/22/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Amos 6: 8.">swear</a> by myself, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, that this house shall become a <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/22/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 69: 25; Jer. 12: 7; Matt. 23: 38; Luke 13: 35.">desolation</a>.
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For thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> unto the king’s house of Judah; Thou <i>art</i> Gilead unto me, <i>and</i> the head of Lebanon: <i>yet</i> surely I will make thee a wilderness, <i>and</i> cities <i>which</i> are not inhabited.
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And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/22/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 37: 24.">cedars</a>, and cast <i>them</i> into the fire.
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And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/22/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 9: 8.">done</a> thus unto this great city?
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Then they shall answer, Because they have <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/22/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 29: 25.">forsaken</a> the covenant of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
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&#182; Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: <i>but</i> weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
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For thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> touching <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/22/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Chr. 3: 15.">Shallum</a> the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more:
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But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/22/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="James 5: 4 (1-6).">Woe</a> unto him that buildeth his house by <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/22/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 23: 37; Ezek. 19: 6.">unrighteousness</a>, and his chambers by wrong; <i>that</i> useth his neighbour’s service without <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/22/13c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Wages.">wages</a>, and giveth him not for his work;
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That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and <i>it is</i> cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
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Shalt thou reign, because thou closest <i>thyself</i> in cedar?  did not thy <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/22/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 23: 25.">father</a> eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, <i>and</i> then <i>it was</i> well with him?
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He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then <i>it was</i> well <i>with him:</i> <i>was</i> not this to know me?  saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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But thine eyes and thine heart <i>are</i> not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do <i>it.</i>
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Therefore thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, <i>saying,</i> Ah my brother!  or, Ah sister!  they shall not lament for him, <i>saying,</i> Ah lord!  or, Ah his glory!
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He shall be <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/22/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Eccl. 6: 3.">buried</a> with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
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&#182; Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.
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I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; <i>but</i> thou saidst, I will not hear.  This <i>hath been</i> thy manner from thy youth, that thou <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/22/21a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Disobedience.">obeyedst</a> not my voice.
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The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/22/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lam. 1: 2.">lovers</a> shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.
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O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/22/23a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB pitied.">gracious</a> shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
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<i>As</i> I live, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, though <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/22/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 37: 1.">Coniah</a> the son of <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/22/24b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 24: 6; 1 Chr. 3: 16.">Jehoiakim</a> king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;
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And I will <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/22/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 34: 20.">give</a> thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand <i>of them</i> whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
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And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.
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But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.
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<i>Is</i> this man Coniah a despised broken idol?  <i>is he</i> a <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/22/28a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 31: 12; Jer. 48: 38; Hosea 8: 8.">vessel</a> wherein <i>is</i> no pleasure?  wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?
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O earth, earth, earth, hear the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/22/29a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 1: 2 (1-2).">word</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/22/30a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Record Keeping.">Write</a> ye this man childless, a man <i>that</i> shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
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